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if you won a case you could get all of your expenses.upreme court of florida came back in '97 and said, you're only limited to certain few expenses, witness fees, sheriff's expense, clerk fees, those types of things, that's it. this attempt to get the 2 or $300,000 will fall flat and they'll get but a very small pittance. >> they're still working on the numbers, right? tabulating the actual numbers. how high could this go do you think? how much could he end up getting? >> well, i think that they've estimated that they have 2 or $300,000 worth of costs for their expert witnesses, for their witness fees, for all the expenses that surrounded this. remember, the state spent by estimates 8 to $900,000 and the defense is in at 2 or $300,000 from what we understand. they i think are simply barking up the wrong tree. it's understandable they'll try to get a reimbursement but the law has changed radically over the last 13 years. whereas folks were able to get their costs, pretty much all of them, i think if we see them get 10% of the 2 or $300,00

are weddings t expensive?llis.com and i will share the results at the end of the show. with the cost of a wedding in more than is my the 500 but so famous people go beyond the marketnd the top five expensive weddings ever. number five chelsea clinton the former first daughter spent more than $5 million to her childhood friend and a cake along with 11,000. number for british opera star it was that and i italn villa. number three kim kardashian bryce spending $10 million airing live on tv. the couple separated 72 days later the three powless cost 60 agreement number two, prince william and kate middleton married at westminster abbey with a total of $33 million. most of that money went to charity but they still spent $8,000 on the cake and 800,000 of the flowers. number one most expensive wedding is prince william parents prince charles and lady diana the biggest one ever the big kahuna and they divorced 15 years later. what you pay and what you get are different things. we'll be back with my $0.2 and the answer

some expensive vacation homes there owned by the stars. officials have told local media that insurers have even sent their own crews to douse some of the really valuable houses to prevent cinders being carried on the wind from setting those properties alight. some progress on the massive elk fire 17 miles east of boise, fire crews there close to getting it under control, about 125,000 acres so far after that was hit by lightning. >> thank you. >>> the pilots were warned seconds before impact. that according to a data recorder recovered after a deadly u.p.s. plane crash in alabama. now, the ntsb is saying the pilots did receive a low-altitude warning just seconds before impact. the u.p.s. cargo jet crashed near a runway in birmingham on wednesday and two pilots on board were killed. now investigators are looking into whether pilot error was to blame, including if the jet was too low. >>> some lawmakers renewing calls to reform the national security agency's surveillance programs, this after documents leaked by edward snowden suggest that th

expensive.e a the best. it's fine the you would say that you want to win in? >> you know, i think, a little embarrassed. this is more expensive. melissa: take a shot at it. reagan's. >> it all tastes great. i like see the best. melissa: now you have to guess which is the most expensive. >> and tell you, probably would not pay more than $3 for a bottle of any of them, but that's me. melissa: i always get tap water. i know if that makes me cheaper one. okay. it's the most expensive. melissa: so we have a refined palate. we picked the $20 per bottle. it's glacial water from western greenland. a massive iceberg breaks off 15,000 year old glacier harvested and melted under strict purity guidelines to preserve the waters natural qualities. the water is untouched by man with no trace minerals. that's why it's worth $20. it was the best tasting. i don't know if it was $20 great he was the second most expensive and a trade. see, the one at all was the most expensive is from the poland spring machines i t

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and it is no secret that having kids can be very expensive. of the top zero most expensive u.s. cities to be a parent. and it's also d.c. ranked as the 10th most expensive. parents in d.c. shell out $28,900 on average to raise a baby during the first year. yes that's just the first year. and the average cost everything have child care, baby gear, among other things including housing. the most expensive housing san jose, and santa cruz, california, in case you are wondering new york city came in third place. wal-mart is looking to boost its bottom line. i will have that story coming up in the next hour. reporting for abc 7 news. back to you. >> all right, linda, another dubious distinction for us here in washington these days. >> they always keep on coming. >> it is 4:36 now. >> and still to come, the first step towardinging healing a ten year nightmare. hear what one of the women held hostage had to say as the house th >> we have been making progress. >> yes. >> yesterday we made it into the 80's, how about that. the aircraft's are back and this morning it is warm and muggy too.

an expensive blessing. >> yes. an expensive blessing. >> reporter: you're okay with that? >> oh, yeah, more than okay. >> reporter: the report found that as a family has more children expenses per child decrease. that's partly because there's more sharing of things like clothes and toys. scott, families with three or more kids spend about 22% less per child compared to families with just two children. >> pelley: it all adds up. elaine, thank you. business is booming for one funeral director, but for no good reason. and we'll show you a rescue mission to save a whale when the "cbs evening news" continues. ♪ with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i should. and the more i focus on everything else, the less time i have to take care of me. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. glucerna products help me keep everything balanced. [ golf clubs clanking ] [ husband ] i'm good! well, almost everything. [ male announcer ] glucerna. delicious shakes and bars. helping peop

we know it is expensive, we know it is expensive and it is invasive coming at the cost of individual privacy rights, and further, the tsa inserting itself in state and local law enforcement without objective probable cause or reasoble suspicion. gerri: we ke talking how the federal government is reaching too much into our pockets and our lives and our computers. it almost seems like the whole thing has run amok. i see it as mission creep, how do you see it? >> it is a very expensive form of security theater. i think there are some members of congress who are getting concerned about this. the representative from new jersey recently introduced a bill that would defund the program. these are hundreds of millns of dollars invested in these programs and they hav had nevere anything to demonstrate they are actually effective. gerri: here's what we're looking . the tsa monitoring way stations, national political conventions, sporting events, musical festivals, rodeos. are you kidding me? the tsa says this is our mandate, why are you surprised? is that true? have they been mandated to do thi

it is no secret that having a baby can be expensive. cities 40 most expensive to be a new parent. baltimore ranks as the 19th most expensive. they spend about $27,000 on hours to raise a baby during the first year. it averages in cost for health care and baby care. the most expensive city are san jose and santa cruz, california. new york city is the third most expensive. a quick check on the markets. and looks like modest gains at the start. back to you. >> you know it is expensive. you just do not want to hear the actual dollar amount. what you do not know cannot hurt you. thank you, jane. machines onnding nearly every corner. a new type of machine has the latest news and weather updates and can provide disaster updates. no word if these high-tech vending machines will make it to the united states. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. besides snacks and drinks, what other items would you like to see in vending machines? you can share your response on our facebook page, on twitter, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> now weather and traffic on the

of house or is an automobile expensive without asking if you ask whether colleges expensive without specifying what kind of education you are getting and under what kind of commissions, it is just not true. is very expensive. it could be, but it needn't be. so, the road to surface here i think is some kind of important public policy issue, which is from a former public policy perspective what do we want to make available as a society to people going to college? what type do we want? and it can be very cheap and it can be expensive. i must admit i will bring an example of the very elaborate concerns about health insurance in society. i would meet the same point there that i just made with respect to the university's. it's not really hard to provide or expensive to provide universal health care. if you don't specify health care insurance for what? it's like saying if you don't specify what type of college education. it's not really hard to provide. so, you know, if you are willing to provide health care coverage for everybody using the very best technology that was available in 1950,

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less expensive for us and less expensive for other people. now, was that all that hard? don't think so. jackie sanders is on medicare, but she is concerned about the future. she says "i'm worried about my grandchildren and great grandchild receiving quality care." coming up, my closing thoughts for her and for you. we'll be right back. >>> jackie sanders has grandchildren and a great grandchild, and she worries about their health coverage. i can't imagine anyone thinking the way we deliver health care in america is perfect and doesn't need major nexts. but because most americans are realizing that the planning called obamacare will raise costs for most people and give unprecedented power to bureaucrats in washington to make your medical decisions for you i wanted to do a lot more than mown and grown -- moan and groan about the president's plan and do something about affordable common sense solutions. many of the ideas i presented are those i actually did as a governor, and they worked. others were ideas i wanted to do, but my term ended before i could. and still others a

they are quite expensive expensive, not as quiet as diesel electric, the new technology coming on line for decades has been coming on line to allow submarines to operate independently. are those cheaper than nuclear? yes. same question with aircraft carriers is it better if we had three or four diesel electric or other nuclear powered submarines? from our point of view it would be better from the potential enemy point of view and that means for submarines instead of one. that as some examples of what we could do with our effectiveness and likely diminish cost. does that answer your question? >> once worked in most when it was simple and smaller and i share your preference. can you keep a substantial piece of the fleet operational with substantial use of reserves? >> we -- reconfigured redesigned? i like the idea of the reserve officer. my experience that they called on that this sort of an ancient prejudice against the reserves, i don't see that changing. you can never tell because if they are really pressed the country will rethink that in insist the reserves be used more in keeping w

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than the less expensive.hat our proirts ought to be. if i were making it up this is how it would g. prevenning and secondly you can't prevent cure it. and if you can't cure it, then sure, you treat it. that's the way it ought to go. prevent it and if you can't treat. it we do the opposite. we focus in this country on treating things and that's where we spend most of our money and spend a little bit trying to cure and spend very little on trying to prevent and we wonder why the costs is so high? part of the reason is, part of something that may not surprise or shock you. because money is in treatment. that's where the money is. you ever heard the statement follow the money. not too many weeksing on, i had stephen breel on the show and talked about the role of money in the health care system. >> we have lived in two economies in this country. economy you and i know. hard pressed and money is tight. and then the health care economy where everybody is doing well except maybe the nurses and the doctors. but the pe

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you need to know to gross expenses are what you will pay uncle sam.ou can subtract your social security, health care, rental, pension and that number, you would need three years worth of that. >> you mentioned the bonds were trading. what alternative do you suggest? >> you have to look at your portfolio to make sure you arere shortening of things. duration is a long topic but it is sensitive. you have to shorten the duration and people that are retiring and our older can look vessel other annuities. they allow you no matter what the market is 4 to 6% you will have this for the rest of your life. >> how much does a retiree need for stocks? >> core equity issue get into retirement and i am a big believer in dividend stocks. they have to pay a dividend and they need to have their record of consistently raising their dividends. most of the stocks that i own have raised their dividends over to an%. this allows an investor, these type of companies are still growing but they pay their investors on a quarterly basis. if the market is going down the still have

an expense yifr one. -- expensive one.er 13 years of school, in dorm rooms parents looking for one last thing to do. >> i can see her walking into kindergarten. >> just now, her daughter is in the back getting to know her new roommate. >> is this the first time you've met? >> yes. >> are you going to get along? >> i think so. >> are you sure? >> i think so this oo this is how move in day for kids is moving on day for parents. >> are you ready to be empty nesters? >> no. we're going to figure it out. >> the scene much the same kids working hard to get here, parents working hard to pay for it. >> got your check book? >> yes. >>;> we're ready. >> it's still expensive. four years here, $25,000 at least, add room and board and you're looking at more than 30,000s oodz good old days, state of california covered more of the costs. >> now it's mom and dad. the same folks you see here who help their kids overpack then squeeze that stuff into their new home as way from home. think about that, veronica. >> it's my

have to do with your expenses, your portfolio and your net worth.f you're continuing to track that each year and you know you're on track from your base plan that she did when he retired then you know you're ok to bump that. if your portfolio hasn't been performing as well as you expected in your spending more than you thought you may have to go back to the drawing board and maybe not bump up a year or realize you may be spending too much in retirement. something you have to look at at least once a 20 year. >> is a long-term care still appropriate for people in their 50s and early '60s. >> most companies have either increase their rates or exited the business. it's really for middle-class families. many wealthy people can afford to self insure. memo review which have and your trust. if you read your trust in you can understand it, it might not be doing what you want to do or may be too complicated for it because there's this portability law. he can go to the surviving spouse. some and not want to do it and some still may. you really need to review t

that would be a lot less expensive for you. then, when you do that your employees still are required by law to go out and find healthcare, which is going to be a whole lot more expensive for them. how does this helpful to your business and to your employees? >> this isn't helpful at all. not only that i would have to say the timing of this is awful. we are all seeing and william and i were talking back stage we were talking about all the increased regulations on top of the health care, the timing couldn't be worse and i would also like to say that i hear a lot well corporations are greedy. and i want to make it clear this is not about greed for most businesses. about survival. it gets down to you have only so much money. you have to allocate what you want to do with that money. if you you throw it into healthcare you don't have a business. these are the choices we are faced with. >> governor huckabee: in the little tim bit of time we have left i want you to both tell me if you anticipate you will hire more people over the next

that i so expensive it is here. tell me your process to get the voucher. >> i talked to the person who does financial aid of the school and i was told by a friend about the voucher and error was positive i would not qualify. financial aid% filled out the paperwork and i gave for the tax forms she said you are approved and i filled out the papeork. very easy. gerri:ha kind of track was your son on before and what about now? >> graduation? i asd -- absolutely one tim to graduate he wants to go to a private school that is very aggressive the one he was ou was not as aggressive with disciplinary problems prevented him from progressing at a rate that i thought he could do that. >> i expect him to progress. gerri: i thinit is exciting is mom can say this is working for me, why are we fighting it? are you up against opposition? >> we are. it is a big public school establishment with $700 billion of federal money and half of every state spends there budget on public schooling. but parents like her that make a fight worth wh

but they are also the most expensive, and it's not clear if students are getting what they paid for.cording to the global higher education rankings on average students in the u.s. paid $14,000 a year to go to college. in australia you would pay $7.5000. in canada, students pay about $6,000 per year. and universities in england are subsidized by the government. students there just pay $5,000 a year. in france higher education is government funded, so out-off-pocket costs are very low, and students pay $600 on average a year. well, still with us david, vice president for post education, and from las vegas, natalia abrams, the co-founder of student debt crisis. and we're also joined by neil mcclumcclue ski. david, why is it so much more expensive to go to college in the united states than other countries. >> you said it, because of public subsidy. our institutions were publicly funded vastly over the last three decades, and we've seen an erosion of that subsidy and that has largely decreased. >> you're shaking your head. >> it's true. one of the reasons they're so expensive we subsidize

but san francisco is an expensive place and it costs so much money to live. the bar is really low, for us low-income immigrant, we come to america because we want to work hard and fight for a better life and then be able to contribute back to society. it's really hard to do that because once we go over the thing like medi cal limit, it becomes really hard and expensive to be able to buy health insurance. even though we might get credit to buy, have insurance in the health care exchange, but it's not enough to make it actually affordable to us. mruz there's a lot of things that is not covered in the exchange like vision or dental care. health care is a maou man right, everyone should be able to get health care regardless of who you are or how much you make. so, it's really important to protect these local laws so families can still work hard and be able to afford health care. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, good afternoon, supervisors, my name is stephanie chan and i'm with the chinese progressive association and youth movement of justi

that would be a lot less expensive for you. then, when you do that your employees still are required by law to go out and find healthcare, which is going to be a whole lot more expensive for them. how does this helpful to your business and to your employees? >> this isn't helpful at all. not only that i would have to say the timing of this is awful. we are all seeing and william and i were talking back stage we were talking about all the increased regulations on top of the health care, the timing couldn't be worse and i would also like to say that i hear a lot well corporations are greedy. and i want to make it clear this is not about greed for most businesses. about survival. it gets down to you have only so much money. you have to allocate what you want to do with that money. if you you throw it into healthcare you don't have a business. these are the choices we are faced with. >> governor huckabee: in the little tim bit of time we have left i want you to both tell me if you anticipate you will hire more people over the next

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it's extremely expensive. can run $8,000 to $10,000 a month. >> and that's not covered by any insurance? >> no. it's money that he and my mom saved. >> okay. so if he hadn't had that money what would have happened? >> oh, my gosh, i don't know. he has a social security, but that's not enough. we would have had to do the medicaid spend-down, i guess. >> what's the hardest part for you? >> just watching your dad deteriorate is hard. you can imagine what it would be like with your folks to watch them get a little worse every time you see them. well, it's like that every day. you make it work. you suck it up and go on. >> yeah. >> because i don't think i have a choice with that. i can't just walk away from him, and i won't. >> yeah. >> see, now there, look at that custard pie. wow. >> oh, wow. >> wonderful! >> is this the one you made? >> this is the one i made. >> is this yours? >> yeah. >> it's good. >> look at that. >> you did good. >> how did we do, too-too? >> i've told becky, somebody in the family had to kn

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more expensive every year. well into the six- >>> raising kids these days is a labor of love that's getting more expensive every year. >> we're talking well into the 6-figures before they even think about college. new government data says parents of children born last year will spend $241,000 from birth to age 18. housing, of course, the largest expense, but childcare and education costs have increased the most over the past few decades. >> it doesn't include college, which is almost mandatory now. so it makes me, you know, really wonder. that's a lot of money. >> just don't think about it. start breathing again. the kid news is, kids do grow up, move out, and pay their own bills. eventually. >>> alex smith will become the fourth 49ers quarterback to leave san francisco and start for kansas city. do you know the others? what he said to a newspaper that stirred the pot. ,,,, look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn'

it's extremely expensive.can run $8,000 to $10,000 a month. >> and that's not covered by any insurance? >> no. it's money that he and my mom saved. >> so if he hadn't had that money, what would have happened? >> oh, my gosh, i don't know. he has a social security, but that's not enough. we would have had to do the medicaid spend down, i guess. >> what is the hardest part for you? >> just watching your dad deteriorate is hard. you can imagine what it would be like with your folks to watch them get a little worse every time you see them. well, it's like that every day. you make it work. you suck it up and go on. >> yeah. >> because i don't think i have a choice with that. i can't just walk away from him, and i won't. >> yeah. >> see, now there, look at that custard pie. wow. >> oh, wow. >> wonderful! >> is this the one you made? >> this is the one i made. >> is this yours? >> yeah. >> it's good. >> look at that. >> you did good. >> how did we do, too-too? >> i've told becky, somebody in the family had to know ho

until recently, the small systems were too expensive to compete with british electricity prices, but the increase in power costs and new technological breakthroughs have driven consumers to his workshop from a small town in south africa, about nine hours' drive from cape town. >> hydropower was not economically viable, because the government actually subsidize the production of electricity. south africa had one of the cheapest electricity rights in the world. that has changed dramatically. our subsidies are being reduced. getting a hand-out from the government. >> the state-run energy company in south africa has raised electricity tariffs by 40% per year for the last two years and vows to continue. so downey sprang into action and partner with local engineer dennis clerk to create of cortex hydro systems. the company helps farmers in rural communities of all small spill the blood small-scale hydroelectric power systems that reduce their power costs. he does not just want to cut costs. he wants to clear the skies. >> nuclear power stations -- i do not like those things. i mean, what i

>> it's vir actually guaranteed to be somewhat more expensive. in the introduction you said the private market disappeared because they can't compete. it's not because someone wants to issue mortgage backed security today they can't do it, but they can do it in a way to compete with fanny and freddy. if we get them out, it will be higher costs. goldman sachs is making a profit. all those people want money and that will add to the cost of mortgages. >> there is a lot of people, i suspect, that say the government really has no role or right for role in the mortgage market at all, either standing behind companies as it did implicitly and in the case of freddy and fanny or to guarantee mortgage-backed securities at all. what do you say to that? why should the government be involved in subsidizing or standerizing the mortgage market at all? >> i would say the government can be very efficient in creating a secondary market, which we know from the history dating back from fannie mae, we know from the present. when you get this mixed story with the gover

the washington post is rejecting them saying that they were a dream and expensive that that.this is not the answer. maybe if you want tilled use less fuel and other smaller rbon the print and all of those same gls, electric cars, people just don't want to drive them. >> i don't think it isor every consumer, but the challenge of electric cars is that the unit cost is more expensive than comparable hybrid models. melissa: but let's not make it the answer? if it is not cost-effective verses other comparable things were you're trying to save energy it makes it seems like it is not a good solution. >> the cost will go down over time as we see with any technology. the first mainframe computer cost tens of millions of dollars and now smart phones cost $250. the technology will be there. the question is that the government should continue to ay a role in helping to diversify. melissa: we have to leave it there, and i apologize before you there was a fighthat i let go too long. next on "money," fight made a movie have been. hollywood heartrob george clooney versus hedge fund billionai

neither of them had highly expensive deaths. if you look at my father at last five or six years you get probably $80,000 worth of pacemaker, that kind of stuff. my mother on the other hand close to the end of her life refuse to open heart surgery and then she had a heart attack and the doctors again said let's do open heart surgery. she was 84 at that point. if we had done the surgery's they recommended it would have cost medicare, 80 to $100,000 but she declined all that. i would say probably 10 or $20,000 death because she was in hospice, she declined most extraordinary intervention so we got a lot of social work, a lot of healing, ala reassurance from the medical team but we didn't get high tech, expensive, futile, painful interventions so many people suffer. >> are there people who choose all methods possible to sustain life? >> yes. >> why? >> a couple reasons. one is we have to allow everyone their chalets and their range of autonomy as they approached death. the other reason is we have but terror and ignorance of death be

. >> he wasn't fond of our questions after he found him ate a day-long all-expense paid trip at a napa resort and winery. >> have a moment? just a couple questions. >> reporter: and he wasn't pleased to see us in sacramento. >> would you answer my question, sir? sir? >> why are you extremely insu insulting. >> reporter: so how will the president of the public utilities commission respond to the questions uncovered in these documents? records filed with the state show since 2007, michael peavy has accepted more than $165,000 in gifts and free travel. nvk, records obtained by the nbc bay area investigative unit have found in the last six years president peavy has accepted 16 trips, each valued at more than $6,000. >> national terminal a. >> this time last weaning i was in china. >> reporter: trips to hong kong and sweden. >> last week i spent a week in germany. >> reporter: globetrotting to germany, spain and israel. >> i get the award in, i think in the last month, perhaps in the last year, for traveling the farthest. although the press is not up on all my travels. [ laughter ] >> repor